Improvement in mustache-guards for cups



UNITED STATES PATENT Orr roa.

ELIJAH AVEY, OF MOUNT MORRIS, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN MUSTACHE-GUARDS FOR CUPS.

Specification forming partof Letters Patent No. 184,316, dated November14, 1876; application filed March 25, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIJAH AVEY, of Mount Morris, in the county of Ogleand State of Illinois, have invented a new and valuable Improvement inMustache Mouth-Pieces; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation ofthe same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part ofthis specification, and to the letters and figures of reference markedthereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a perspective view of mymoustache mouthpiece, and-Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is aplan view of my mouth-piece, and Fig. 4: isa front elevation of the samewhen detached from the cup and the plate. Fig. 5 is a longitudinalvertical section.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangementof a detachable moustache mouth-piece for cups, as will be hereinaftermore fully set forth.

In the annexed drawings, A represents an ordinary coffee or tea cup. Brepresents a plate made .of solid silver, or of nickle silverplated, andofthe form substantially as shown, with an aperture, b, as shown in thedrawings. At each end of the plate B is a wire guard, O, which fits overthe edge of the cupholding the plate within it close to the inside ofthe cup,-the plate thus forming a mouth-piece for applicable to any cupof common construction.

The spring wire guards 0 press in opposite directions on the outside ofthe cup, firmly holding the mouth-piece in position and obviating thenecessity of the employment of interior pieces projecting downward fromthe lower face of the mouth-piece, between which 1 shields fordrinking-cups, dated November 18,

1573, No. 144,614, and I therefore lay no claim to such invention, whichdiffers from my invention in its construction, in that I employ bentspring-wires, embracing a portion of the outer surface of the cup, andpressing in opposite directions, thus aifording a broad bearing, andenabling me to dispense with the flange projecting from the upper faceof the moustache-shield.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture, the solid removable segmental plate B,provided with the orifice b and bent spring wire guards G, constructedand adapted to fit over the edge ofa cup, substantially as described,and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

ELIJAEI AVEY.

Witnesses:

A. NEwcoMER, UPToN MILLER.

